Sensory Neurons Arouse C. elegans Locomotion via Both Glutamate and Neuropeptide Release

Seungwon Choi; Kelsey P. Taylor; Marios Chatzigeorgiou; Zhitao Hu; William R. Schafer; Joshua M. Kaplan

doi:10.1371/journal.pgen.1005359

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Sensory Neurons Arouse C. elegans Locomotion via Both Glutamate and Neuropeptide Release

Seungwon Choi ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Seungwon Choi, Kelsey P. Taylor

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Biological and Biomedical Sciences program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Kelsey P. Taylor ,

Contributed equally to this work with: Seungwon Choi, Kelsey P. Taylor

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Biological and Biomedical Sciences program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Marios Chatzigeorgiou,

Affiliation Cell Biology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Zhitao Hu,

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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William R. Schafer,

Affiliation Cell Biology Division, MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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Joshua M. Kaplan

* E-mail: kaplan@molbio.mgh.harvard.edu

Affiliations Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Department of Neurobiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America, Biological and Biomedical Sciences program, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
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Sensory Neurons Arouse C. elegans Locomotion via Both Glutamate and Neuropeptide Release

Seungwon Choi,
Kelsey P. Taylor,
Marios Chatzigeorgiou,
Zhitao Hu,
William R. Schafer,
Joshua M. Kaplan

Published: July 8, 2015
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pgen.1005359

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